Woke Up Hurting

Daybreak comes with the devil’s hum

A carcass starts to breathe

Wakes one more time to try and find

a place to count its teeth

And scrub the cuts from yesterday’s

Hot scuffle in the street

Show me the door

I need somewhere to go

Daylight

woke up hurting

with tarmac to my side

I woke up with dirty knees

not for the first time

I woke up hurting

Though I can’t quite say why

I woke up hurting

Woke up hurting

Slug through the day, sneak between

the houses I have made

And run sacred rivers up my sleeve

Pills by mouth with lemonade

As the hours slow down, they all clock out

of the cracked up daily grind

I’m in a back back street, coming down

I wait for the beam of light

Show me the door

I need somewhere to go

Midnight

woke up hurting

with tarmac to my side

I woke up with dirty knees

not for the first time

I woke up hurting

Though I can’t quite say why

I woke up hurting

Woke up hurting

If all these southern tales are true

we should pray for abduction, pray it comes soon

If all these southern tales are true

plan for Heaven though Hell will do